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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1945
Page
6
Daily Record reports cloudy showers and possible thunderstorms tonight and Saturday with little temperature change. High near 84 and low around 59 today, 3 p m. readings show 29.58 inHg. Warmest city Yuma Arizona at 110 degrees, coldest Bismarck North Dakota at 37. Almanac notes sun rise at 6 20 and sunset at 8 33.
The notice outlines expiry dates for Red Stamps Book 4 and Blue Stamps, including Fats, Sugar, Gasoline, and Shoe stamps. It notes U-2 through Z-2 validity, period end dates this summer, and that ration boards accept applications for increased B rations.
August S Reese transfers a parcel in Jefferson township section 21 town 1 range 9 to Joe Jaeggi. Edward J Flanagan transfers a land section in Spring Grove town 1 range 9 section 17 to Edwin Kaderty.
Charles Ervin Soddy of Brown Town route 1 was arrested at 1 30 a m today on charges of speeding around the Monroe court house square.
Mr and Mrs Ervin Jackson of Brodhead welcomed a daughter on June 15 at St. Clare Hospital.
Surgical: Joseph Hibner Monroe Diane Kay Smith Brodhead Jean Starks Janesville Richard Vel and William F Krueger Aldo Dismissals: Joseph R Laws Mrs Ray T Silver Mrs Paul Busch Mrs Clifford Petterson and son Mrs Raymond T Hefty and daughter Walter Douglas Pauline Charlene and Ruth Krueger Charles Regez and Arthur
The Wisconsin Supreme Court affirmed life prison terms for Peter Bachmeyer of Eau Claire and John La Pean of Tomah for the slaying of Ray Robeson in Eau Claire. Both had been convicted after separate trials. the court ruled no statute of limitations barred the trials and that both were equally guilty as La Pean’s shooting occurred during a holdup in which both participated.
Darrel M. Martin Jr of Milwaukee was killed when his car struck an oil truck on Highway 41 south of Fond du Lac. Edith Baird, 35, Milwaukee, injured lightly. truck driver Anton Belcherowski of Milwaukee unharmed.
Sgt. Joseph Fredrick of Armstrong Creek Wisconsin, in the Seventh Division, reports brisk fighting on Okinawa with only five hours of sleep in the past 24 hours after reaching the top of the Yaeju escarpment.
War time measures include raising weekly district tuition caps to four dollars with state aid offset. A dairy cheese factory ban bill advanced from committee amid charges of big company monopolies and price manipulation while officials clashed over insurance plans and salary hikes for state officers.
After fierce air assaults the carrier Sara suffered severe damage with fires and a 6 degree list. An officer and two sailors fought flames as planes and fuel scattered. Despite more enemy strikes at dusk, the ship remained afloat and reached Puget Sound for rapid refit in under two months.
The assembly moved forward on 86 bills yesterday including two measures approved by the senate to empower cities to clear slum and blighted areas by acquiring lands and selling them for redevelopment.
The house passed a bill to create a state radio council and permit state owned educational stations to expand on FM. It approved inspection of agricultural lime with labeling of fineness and calcium carbonate. A pension bill for totally disabled persons gains funding, and state employee bonuses plus pay hikes for the health officer and insurance commissioner are approved. The lower chamber also sets school transportation aid at 1.35 million, with continued high school and elementary aid at 3.5 and 4.5 million respectively.
A switch engine backed onto a siding near Antigo causing minor injuries to about 40 to 50 passengers and delaying the Chicago-Ashland limited for four and a half hours. Both locomotives remained on rails. damage occurred to the front tracks and switch engine left cylinder. A Green Bay wrecker was summoned and the 10:30 p.m. departure was pushed to 3 a.m. Most injured travelers received treatment and rejoined the train.
Eight members of a New York Central railroad section gang were killed when struck by the Chicago to New York water level limited near the station. The tragedy occurred as the train moved east, with investigators beginning findings on the assault and casualty details.
Mrs. Emma L. Kleist 57 Albany has died in a Madison hospital after a brief illness. Friends and relatives have been notified and burial is expected to be in Albany.
Eugene Moen of Blanchardville and Clarence Homb of South Wayne visited Monroe on business. Mrs H Huddleston of Madison visits her mother Mrs J C Penn. Miss Janice Gibbons leaves for Milwaukee then Land o Lakes Wisconsin for the summer. Harold Jacobs returns from New York on business. Mrs J Frank Cook finishes sophomore year at University of Dubuque. Herman Schindler and James Brhy attend an Old Line Life convention in Madison. Mrs Edwin Riese of Milwaukee and Mrs John Haldiman of Monroe return from visiting Robert Isely. Misses Marcene Kathryn and Grace Busjahn depart Orangeville for Camp Asaha Trout Lake to work summer.
The wartime Parliament ends its decade of service with Virginia born Lady Astor retiring after 25 years in the Commons. Her son Lt. William Waldorf Astor will carry the family name in Parliament. King George VI prorogues Parliament as Churchill forms a caretaker government and Britain awaits July election results.
Reported heavy fighting stretches from China coast to Wenchow and Canton as Chinese forces retake towns near Hongkong and Iskan. Australians push toward Brunei while Miri and Seria fields threaten. Mindanao rains slow Mindanao progress and Luzon forces close on Cagayan valley with 240 mm guns and rugged terrain.
Representative Knutson says he will summon Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt and John Hartford before the Ways and Means Committee for a full explanation of reports that Hartford lent $200,000 to the late President's son, recovered $4,000, and claimed a $196,000 bad debt for 1942 tax purposes. Chairman Doughton indicated a likely Tuesday hearing to decide on investigation, noting Hartford's 1942 return is under IRS review and a $228,500 bad debt item is not yet approved.
Lois Irene Wuethrich of Clarno and Ronald Edwin Rabe of Winslow Wisconsin were married Thursday at St John Evangelical and Reformed church with Rev. Paul C. Kehle officiating. The couple left for a wedding trip to northern Wisconsin after the ceremony.
Matthew S. Sloan, longtime chairman and president of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad since 1934 and former head of New York City's electric light and power system, died here last night. A Mobile, Alabama native, Sloan led the railroad and had earlier served as a city utility chief.
The government is liquidating homestead projects from 1933-34 as the Federal Public Housing Authority plans to end eight remaining ventures. Ironwood Michigan is among the sites. several plants and homes have been sold or turned to cooperatives. Losses to the government run about 50 percent with total costs for sold family units around 5.33 million dollars while sales brought 2.60 million.
President Ricard o Adolfo de la Guardia resigns as agreed for June 15 after a constituent assembly meeting was set to choose a new leader. His term would have expired in January following his 1941 overthrow of Arnulfo Arias and the December suspension of the constitution amid a political crisis. The opposition fled toward the Panama Canal Zone as the government dissolved the national assembly.
President Truman accepts the resignation of Abner H. Ferguson from the post of administrator of the Federal Housing Administration effective July 1.
The census bureau reports 1.5 million more non-white people employed in non agricultural industries in 1945 than in 1940, reflecting shifts in the labor market and demographic changes during the war era.
A Grace Lutheran supper meeting honored the petroleum division employees and officers of Green Dane Rock and Lafayette counties linked to Wisconsin Farm Supply. Glen Noonan spoke on sales promotion, and a safety film on farm and home hazards was shown by Herbert Kelm. Paul Franke led the gathering. Harold E. Scherer returned from a 10 day business trip to New York City.
Mrs. Ulrich Rufer of Monroe learns of the death of her sister in law Mrs. Fred Rufer, age 83, who died January 27 1945 in Langanthal Switzerland.
The destroyer Hazelwood limped into Mare Island for refit after a kamikaze strike off Okinawa April 29. Ten officers including Commander W P Duen and 67 of 299 crew are dead or missing. Commissioned June 18, 1943, she sailed in Wake Tarawa Gilbert Marshall Peleliu and Philippine campaigns before joining the Third Fleet toward Japan.
Washington reports Seventh War Loan E bond sales are 10 percent behind pace. Director Ted R. Gamble urged war finance committees to boost activity to erase the small deficit. Individuals have $5.51 billion, 78.7 percent of the quota, while E bonds total $2.496 billion of the $4 million target.
Sean O'Kelly backed by Eamon de Valera's government leads the first returns against Gen Sean MacEoin Fine Gael and Dr Patrick McCartan in Ireland's presidential election. Ballots count from Dublin show O'Kelly ahead as government candidate.
The Office of Defense Transportation urges civilians to avoid train travel as troop movements surge. Some 20 million soldiers move monthly, with 4 000 Pullman cars and 1 200 troop sleepers in use and more possible. Expect crowded civilian trains, especially west of Chicago, through late 1945 and into 1946 as troops return from Europe and men are discharged or reassigned.
University of Chicago president Robert M. Hutchins urged restraint as he condemned national hatred toward Germany and Japan. Speaking at the 221st convocation, he warned the United States risks Hitler’s conquest through racial prejudice and urged justice and due process for all criminals.
Madison Wisconsin. Milton H Button director of the state department of agriculture requested federal guidance after the legislature directed him to hold the Wisconsin state fair as a local function under the office of defense transportation. He telegraphed Col J Monroe Johnson in Washington seeking regulations to comply with the request. The resolution passed the assembly and was concurred in by the senate.
Mail censorship between the United States and the United Kingdom ends today while international censorship remains in force.
Funeral services for Mrs. Anna Gemperli were held at 2 p m Thursday in the Zwingli Evangelical and Reformed church with Rev. A R Achtemeier officiating. Interment was in Highland cemetery.
President Truman accepts Lauchlin Currie resignation from the White House after Currie, earning ten thousand dollars a year as Presidential administrative assistant, steps down from the post today.
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